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Saturday, September 27, 2003
Sienes: Gays, naked male dancers and matrons together?
By Cris G. Sienes
THERE is a grandiose plan to make Davao City the entertainment center of Bimp-Eaga.
If such a plan comes together, Davao City will be a booming city.
But even as the plan is still being studied, some people are already raising the hobgoblin of widespread prostitution in the city once the plan becomes a reality.
Prostitution, of course, is the world's oldest profession. Even today, Davao City has its share of widespread prostitution. Why, Davao City even has the youngest hookers in the so-called buntogs.
So long as poverty, uncontrolled vices and broken families remain, there will always be prostitution in the city whether it becomes an entertainment center or not.
And while we're at it, an informant whispered to us that there is a certain nightspot somewhere in Bajada and Cabaguio Avenue, which is reportedly frequented by gays and matrons. The reason, so we were told, is that within the nightspot male macho dancers strut around naked, their assets big and turgid like policemen's nightsticks.
An innocent young lady was reportedly coaxed into visiting the nightspot by a friend. The moment she entered the nightspot, the innocent young lady was so shocked by what she saw that she reportedly blurted out: "Dili ko magminyo (I will not marry)."
We treat this as raw information. But it is worth looking into by the city's anti-vice squad just to make sure.
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The city appears to be unable to come up with a permanent traffic-rerouting scheme. It keeps on changing its traffic re-routing scheme. The reason why the city's traffic problem remains.
We still believe that the best traffic re-routing scheme was the one implemented by the de Guzman administration shortly before it was booted out of office.
Carefully studied and prepared by a UP group, when it was experimented on, it cleared Claro Recto, San Pedro, Ponciano and Magsaysay Avenue of traffic jams.
When the new city administration took over, however, the traffic-rerouting scheme was revised allegedly because drivers complained about it.
But when the revised traffic re-routing scheme was implemented, drivers also complained.
TMC chief Celedonio Tibayan then came up with his roped loading and unloading areas. Again drivers complained about it.
Recently a new traffic re-routing scheme was implemented, but, as usual, drivers also complained about it.
If the city will keep on changing its traffic re-routing scheme on the complaints of some drivers, it will never get to solve the messy flow of traffic in our streets during peak hours.
The bottom line is that whatever traffic re-routing scheme would be implemented should be for the common good. Even drivers must learn to sacrifice for the common good.
It will take strong political will on the part of local leaders to implement a permanent and no-nonsense traffic re-routing scheme for the good of all and not just for a few driver groups.
Unless and until local leaders stop playing politics, the city will never be able to solve its traffic problem.
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The day before we prepared this column piece, we noticed a Cenro garbage-monitoring vehicle in the main subdivision road of Country Homes Subdivision in Cabantian. However, after reaching the intersection of the main subdivision road and Block 54, the vehicle turned back.
Had it proceeded to the road leading to Ciudad de Esperanza, it would have spotted the piles of garbage on the roadside and in the road canal.
Was the presence of the Cenro garbage-monitoring vehicle perhaps a reaction to our column on the garbage problem in our subdivision in Cabantian?
Point to Ponder: "I want our people to grow and be like the molave, strong and resilient, rising on the hillside, unafraid of the raging flood, the lightning, or the storm, confident of its own strength." ((Quezon: But have we grown, as Quezon wanted us to?)
(September 27, 2003 issue)
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